CONSIDER THE LORD JESUS - PART 5

TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2024

This topic deals with the ability, the capacity, the desire, and the spirited endeavour to consider that which is of great worth and eternal value to a heavenly calling. The Scripture provides a great deal of information on the Lord Jesus Christ.

In other words, a tremendous amount of informative disclosure or revelatory knowledgebase concerning Him is bigly available in the Bible. You can now understand the reason why cogitating on the Word with ardent alacrity creates a bunch of influences that initiates, sustains, and amplifies an empowered functioning ability in all-powerful Christ. More below!

Reference: Hebrews 3:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

"Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession."

Today's article is still on the question: "Why must we consider Jesus?"

To make your life the manifestation of your identity in Christ, and grow from strength to strength in your faith walk, you must do so. Understand this truth: If you are born again, Christ is your suitable lifestyle, but you have to work it out by considering Him in everything you do.

If Christ is your supernatural dwelling place, and He is divinely natured in your heart by virtue of salvation, you have to continually partake of His divine nature in the earth realm, by working it out in your heart, soul and perceptive actions. So therefore, work out your salvation, that is, cultivate it, to bring it to full effect, by actively pursuing spiritual maturity with awe-inspired fear and trembling (see Philippians 2:12 NIV). Notably, the first inducement for considering the Lord is our active faith after salvation, bearing in mind that He is the One who brings our faith to utmost or superlative maturity.

We must continue to consider the Lord Jesus, until Christ is fully rooted and grounded in our mindsets, perspectives, communications, interpretations, core values and regular activities, thereby inspiring godly and wise actions through us. Acts 17:28 reads, "For in Him we live and move and exist [that is, in Him we actually have our being], as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children'" (AMP). Be well informed that this Scripture is all about functioning in the realm of eternal life and glory. In other words, there is no real life outside Christ.

Beloved saint, you can't live, move or exist apart from Him; otherwise you are in for a tumultuous applause from the devil. And if indeed, we live and move and exist in Him, we must remain conscious of the eternal life in us by considering Jesus, so that His wisdom will advance in us, thereby unfolding the character of the supernatural life which has the power to shape our Christian walk from within.

Hebrews 12:2 reads, "looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith..." (NASB). The more passionate forms of attention you pay to Jesus, the more benefits the mystery of His nature will bestow on you. The real value of Jesus being the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, is mainly ascribed to our interactions with His divinity, which come with the ability to provide any Christian with rest and relief - from the demands of everyday life - especially - in the theatre of faith walk.

So this is not about fixing your physical eyes on Jesus, because He is not physically here on earth; the Hebraic awakening intimation or rendering doesn't mean that. It means fixing the eyes of your spirit on Jesus without distraction, and with your moral consciousness linked to the gospel truth. Stay tuned for part 6. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Matthew 6:33; Philippians 2:1-3; Ephesians 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:9-10.

Exuberant Declaration:

My heavenly calling is a divine recognition of God's abundant grace wholly made available in Christ Jesus. I function daily in Christ, the realm of wonderful and glorious light, in which divine goodness is expressed, true wisdom is embodied, and supreme power is executed. As I conspicuously and faithfully consider Christ, I experience a flourishing, beautiful life and a lasting unco prosperity. Hallelujah!